Aurora Fokker DR-1 Triplane - Newsprint Issue, 1/48, 105-100
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Mint
$79
Still factory sealed. This kit is in amazing investment-grade 'Mint' condition and the seal is completely intact. The DR-1 'Newspaper' issue is a a reissue of the classic 1956 kit. James Cox, who did much of the early artwork for Aurora, created a timeless classic for the original issue and this artwork was used well into the 1960s and possibly up till the final 'White Box' release before Aurora's demise. Mr. Cox also did unique artwork for the early Aurora Catalogs as well.
AMT Star Trek USS Enterprise - Also Yorktown / Valiant / Hood / Farragut / Excaliber / Intrepid / Republic / Constitution / Lexington / Potemkin / Constellation / Exeter / Kongo, 1/635, S951
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG+++
$125
Early issue from about 1970. Molded in light blue and green-tint clear plastic and contains decals for all the starships from the series. The kit has never been started. Internal factory sealed bag or inventoried 100% complete including decals and instructions. Decals are excellent as 'as-new'. Please read the article located on this website about saving old decals before you use these or any older decals.
Lindberg German Ju-87 Stuka Dive Bomber Motorized, 1/48, 306M-100
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
$74
Late 1950 motorized hardbox issue with Ray Gaedke artwork. Features pilot and gunner figures, one piece canopy, centerline large bomb and two wing-mounted smaller bombs, electric motor for the prop, display stand and battery holder with wires. Molded in gloss medium green and clear. Never started. The motor is still in the factory sealed bag; the model parts have been inventoried 100% complete including decals and instructions. Lindberg is a company with a fascinating history The original 'Lindberg Line' stretches back to the 1930s when Paul Lindberg drew plans for famous modeling magazines and marketed his balsa wood 'stick and tissue' by urging dealers to carry the '...Complete Lindberg Line'. After the war, Lindberg and Olsen had a strong hand in early United States injection molded kit development. Please see the article located on this website about early USA plastic kit manufacturers.
Ideal Aeroplane & Supply Fishing Trawler - 18 Inch Long Wooden Ship, 317
Wood Model Kit, Box Condition: Good++
$219
Very, very rare, especially in this condition. Dated 1950 and measures 18 inches long when built. Wooden kit with a beautiful pre-carved balsawood hull and quality printwood parts, wood stock as required, one very large and full factory-sealed bag of cast metal fittings and another smaller factory-sealed bag of metal fittings, sail cloth, printed cardstock superstructure sides, a full color flag sheet as well as highly detailed three-view plans with hull cross sections, numerous superb detail drawings, very good instructions with additional building illustrations, full rigging diagram and sail details. Certainly one of Ideal's more detailed and better kits.
Matchbox AD-5 Skyraider - (A1-E or AD-5N / A-1G), 1/48, PK-651
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good-
$28
Rare tandem seat Skyraider in 1/48. Includes optional parts for different variants. Contains markings for Air Force 4407 Combat Crew Training Sq or Navy USS Forrestal VA(AW)-33. Features detailed full cockpit for three and crew, folding wings, separately molded rudder, optional position wing flaps, optional position landing gear and air brake, drop tanks, a full load of underwing bombs and a detailed painting guide. The kit has never been started. NOTE: inventoried and missing (1) part, #38. This is a wing fold part; you only need it if you are building it with the wings folded up. Otherwise includes all other parts, decals and instructions. NOTE: the decals are 100% intact and flat, but look moisture damaged. Be prepared to furnish your own decals, or restore / reproduce these. If you are interested, there are two articles on this website that tell you how to do that.
Frog DeHavilland Mosquito Mk4 or Mk6 - RAF or RAAF, 1/72, F187
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc+
$22
'Green Series' issue. As with most Frog models, there are very fine panel lines and no unrealistic surface detail. Features cockpit, crew, under-wing rockets and rotating wheels and props. Contains decals and parts for both air forces and parts for the bomber or fighter version. Never started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions. Since there is no mention of a display stand on the instructions or on the box, I assumed one was not in this issue.
Aurora Halberstadt CLII - (CL-II / CL.II), 1/48, 136-98
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good++
$68
The second issue of this kit, dated 1959 with 98 cent price extension. The 'Famous Fighters' is only in the border on the two short side logos. The kit has never been started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
Supermodel CRDA Cant Z-506 B Airone - Spanish Civil War / Italian Air Force SAR - (Z506), 1/72, 10-015
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
$58
Elegant Italian seaplane model that features markings for several aircraft: Italian SAR (white finish - Luftwaffe Crosses and large red 'Red Cross' markings, Italian Air Force (dramatically red striped wings)and Spanish Civil War Nationalist. From the 1970s and nicely molded and detailed for that time. Never started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
Revell Convair Atlas America's First Interncontinental Ballistic Missile - 'S' Issue, 1/110, H1822-198
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
$580
Dated 1958. Very rare ICBM and the first and only issue of this Revell 'S' kit representing the Atlas in ICBM configuration. Reissues are impossible because the the molds were altered to make the Mercury Atlas kit. Very highly detailed molded in correct white, gray and bright yellow. Features elevating missile support arms and hinged break-away supports, complete launching base, ramp and pad, missile truck and trailer that elevates 90 degrees to load missile and crew. Never started. Inventoried 100% complete with all parts, decals and instructions. The decals are in exceptional 'near mint' condition with the slightest yellowing as the only flaw. The instructions are also 'near mint' and not even yellowed. The box has great color and gloss, four solid corners, four solid & original corners, no repairs and no fading. However, it is only graded 'very good' because there is corner wear, edge wear and other general moderate to light wear as shown. All four side panels display like the box top does. Shipping insurance is required for this kit. This model has a great history. Fresh on the heels of the initial "Missile Boom" in model kit sales, Revell quickly planned a large series of missile kits. In order to make them more interesting, any accessories that could be included were such as launchers, transports, cranes and crew. Spurred on by early success, Revell decided to create an expensive missile model by adding all the trimmings - a complete base with support equipment. The result was the Convair Atlas ICMB, which sold for the almost unheard of price of $1.98 in 1958. However, the missile kit sales bubble exploded almost right at that moment and inventory turnover dropped to almost zero just as fast. The Atlas and most other Revell, Aurora and Monogram missiles were dropped from the line up. The high price and nearly non-existent sales ensured the rarity of this kit, but there was more to come. For a long time, it looked like Revell had wasted a small fortune on this kit. But in a few short years the Atlas would carry the Mercury Capsule into space. Revell would dust off the molds, cut in the correct changes and issue a new kit, the Mercury Atlas "Everything Is Go!" model. This model was a success for many years but the mold modifications made any reissue of the original Atlas ICBM impossible.
MPC North American B-25 Mitchell, 1/72, 2-0201
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG+
$28
Dated 1974 and from quality Airfix molds and includes colorful decals for the box aircraft. The model has many working features: elevating guns, rotating turrets, full crew and very good interior detail, opening bomb bay doors, opening fore and aft boarding doors with optional ladders, rotating wheels and props and moving control surfaces. The kit has never been started. It has been inventoried and the actual aircraft is complete and includes decals and instructions. The decals are in 'near mint' condition which is rare for this kit. But NOTE: aircraft crew are present but silver plastic; they are from an earlier issue of this same kit. Missing all the ground crew.
Aurora SNJ Trainer, 1/48, 80-69
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG++
$110
This is the first issue of this kit, with the square Northern Lights Logo from 1956. Rare early 'ground' box art. Kit has never been started and is 100% complete with all parts, decals and instructions. Instructions show older logo and decals do not have a stand decal. However, it has a triangle base included and not the rectangular one shown on the instructions.
Huma Model Flettner Fl-282 Kolibri, 1/48, 6500
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good++
$44
Successful German WWII helicopter design, and the first with counter-rotating intermeshing blades (in 1938). A further development of the Fl-265, flight tests showed that the Fl-282 was an excellent helicopter. It even flew from destroyers and minelayers while underway in he Baltic and Med. 1000 were ordered, but by the end of WWII only 24 had been built. Never started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
Pyro Sea Going Diesel Tugboat Despatch No. 9 of Standard Oil, 1/76, 207
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Fair++
$115
From the late 1950s. Rare, early original Pyro issue with large colorful box and internal blue packing inserts. Very nicely detailed for that time and measures 13.5 inches long when assembled. Includes crew members and rigging material. Never started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes instructions. Please note, this very early issue was not made with decals. The box is intact but has wear and the hole at left as shown. Despatch No.9 was built by the Tampa Marine Corporation in Florida in 1945 for the fleet of tugs operated by Standard Oil of California in Sacramento Bay and the San Joaquin River.
Revell Airbus A321 Swissair - CFM Engines, 1/144, 04247
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
$27
Features all recessed panel lines, detailed and optional extended or retracted landing gear, CFM-56 engines with good intake and exhaust, antennas and vents and decals for Swissair. Never started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
AMT Kenworth Conventional W-925 Tractor Semi Truck, 1/25, T519
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Exc
$179
Original issue that is still factory sealed but the seal has drawn the box top slightly concave. Super detailed truck with over 300 parts and many in chrome. Features full rolling chassis build up just like the real truck, complete interior cab and sleeper cab detail, one-piece tilting hood, vinyl air/hydraulic hoses, duel exhaust, fifth wheel assembly, hollow vinyl truck tires, straight or curved exhaust stacks, stock or custom rear wheel hubs, "Spicer" main 5 Speed and Auxiliary 4 Speed Transmissions, Air Ride Driver's Seat and 855 CID Turbo Charged Cummings Diesel Engine.
Heller Patrouille de France Fouga CM-170 Magister / Ouragan / Alpha Jet, 1/72, 80399
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
$48
1988 35 year anniversary of the famous French Air Force acrobatic team Patrouille De France. Includes all three kits and a very large, extensive decal sheet with all the special markings. The Alpha Jet and Magister have never been started and are 100% complete. NOTE: the Ouragan has very minor 'professional' quality assembly to two parts: bulkhead to floor. There is no other assembly. Inventoried 100% complete. With instructions and decals in 'near mint' condition.
Amodel SM-1/300 With Additional Wing, 1/72, 72113
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
$26
Rare. Features good cockpit and colorful markings for the box art helicopter. Never started. Either inventoried complete or still in the factory sealed bag and includes decals and instructions. NOTE: decals are intact but have visible age micro-cracking. Please read the two articles (on this website) about how to save or reproduce old decals.
Lindberg Douglas F4D-1 Skyray, 1/48, 523-98
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Exc++
$56
Still factory sealed. Very rare in sealed investment-grade condition. 1950s issue has fantastic Ray Gaedke artwork. The model features fine raised details, moving rudder and wing control surfaces, complete jet engine and opening inspection cover, pilot, two drop tanks, underwing rockets and a clear display stand. Lindberg is a company with a fascinating history The original 'Lindberg Line' stretches back to the 1930s when Paul Lindberg drew plans for famous modeling magazines and marketed his balsa wood 'stick and tissue' by urging dealers to carry the '...Complete Lindberg Line'. After the war, Lindberg and Olsen had a strong hand in early United States injection molded kit development. Please see the article located on this website about early USA plastic kit manufacturers.
Nitto Sturmgeschutz III Ausf.D And Schwimmwagen, 1/76, 22
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
$18
Includes both kits seen on the box top. They are very well detailed. Never started. The two kits have been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
Mauve Curtiss P-40N Warhawk - USAAF 502 Fighter Squadron Sr. no. 42-105711, 1/48, 00081-1500
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc+
$34
Well molded with all recessed panel detail, three piece canopy and colorful decals. Never started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.